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Mother or child? : intra-household redistribution under gender-asymmetric altruism
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of … cost of both parents. Thus, proposals to redistribute income from fathers to mothers need to take into account socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908633
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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution Under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of … cost of both parents. Thus, proposals to redistribute income from fathers to mothers need to take into account socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154987
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517855
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Relative income, the breadwinner norm, and mental health in couples
Getik, Demid - 2022
how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270328
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Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: income, expenditure, savings, and job loss
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented disruptions to the global economies and has led to income loss and high … unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings … using data from a six-country survey that covers countries in different geographical locations and at various income levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306066
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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981371
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The role of body weight for health, earnings and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972451
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa : the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507715
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The Gender Difference in Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium Play
Jeon, Gahye Rosalyn; Ong, David - 2021
The mixed strategy Nash equilibrium (MNE) is a well-established concept in theory, but empirical and experimental support has been hampered by the need for a large sample size for across-subject choices and serial correlation for within-subject choices. We overcome these difficulties in testing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251100